US to host Beijing for high-level talks

Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew are scheduled to receive State Councilor Yang Jiechi, a top foreign policy official, and Vice Premier Wang Yang on June 23 and 24, the State Department said Monday. The meeting will be the seventh session of the “US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue,” and features the same four officials that met last year in Beijing. The two nations are friendly on many fronts, but also have clashed on the international scene, most recently during the South China Sea dispute.